Diablo Cody

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born

June 14, 1978 in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

gender

female

website

http://diablocody.blogspot.com/

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Film

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Brook Busey, better known by the pen name Diablo Cody, is an American Academy Award-winning screenwriter, writer, author, journalist and blogger. First known for her candid chronicling of her year as a stripper in her Pussy Ranch blog and her 2006 memoir, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper, Cody won wider fame as the writer of the 2007 film Juno, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

A sitcom written by Cody, called The United States of Tara, based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, is currently in pilot stage at Showtime. She has several other scripts in the development stage at various studios.

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Books by Diablo Cody

Average rating: 3.49 · 6,293 ratings · 1,293 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper 3.48 avg rating — 5,954 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Juno: The Shooting Script by Diablo Cody, Ivan Reitman 4.21 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Jennifer's Body 3.28 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Screenwriter's Award-Winner Set: Collection 6: Juno / Little Miss Sunshine / Sideways (Newmarket Shooting Script Series) by Diablo Cody, Alexander Payne, Michael Arndt 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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Quotes by Diablo Cody

“He is the cheese to my macaroni.”
― Diablo Cody, Juno: The Shooting Script

tags: couples , love

166 people liked it

“In my opinon, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.”
― Diablo Cody, Juno: The Shooting Script

141 people liked it

“Gas Attendant: "Thata ain't no etch-a-sketch. Thats one doodle that can't be un-did home skillet.”
― Diablo Cody, Juno: The Shooting Script

tags: humor , juno

55 people liked it

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Candy Girl A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody

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